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The Naked PC - http://www.TheNakedPC.com What You Need to Know about All Things PC Publisher: Lee Hudspeth and T.J. Lee Editor in Chief: Dan Butler Contributing Editor: Al Gordon This issue is for Thursday, March 2, 2000 - Vol. 3 No. 05 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Table of Contents ** 01. Letter from the Publisher ** 02. Slow Support for Windows 2000 (by Al Gordon) ** 03. Surfing Antarctica: How the Internet Can TAKE You... Anywhere (by Lee Hudspeth) ** 04. Virtual Office with uReach.com (by T.J. Lee) ** 05. Making Windows 2000 Multiboot (by Al Gordon) ** 06. Featured Web Site - The Easter Egg Archive ** 07. Featured Product - Macromedia Dreamweaver ** 08. Featured Book - "Microsoft Office 2000 Visual Basic Programmer's Guide" by David Shank, Mark Roberts, and Tamra Myers ** 09. Featured Tip - WebData.com Area Code Directory ** 10. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and interesting stuff ** 11. We Get Mail - TNPC = Few Morals and Less Integrity? ** 01. Letter from the Publisher In like a lion! March has always been one of our favorite months here at TNPC (how can you not like a month that kicks off Spring in the northern hemisphere?). This time of year finds Jim trying to get everyone he knows to buy Girl Scout cookies so you'll see people in the halls here at TNPC duck suddenly under the nearest desk as he walks by. With three daughters coming up through the ranks of the Girl Scouts he'll be selling cookies for some years to come. Jim also has some good advice on how to virtually handle your phone. Al checks in this issue with some real-world experiences working with the newly released Windows 2000; and he can tell you why you might want to wait a while before upgrading to this new operating system. Meanwhile Lee waxes up his surfboard and waxes philosophical about how the Internet is changing more in our lives than just finding updated device drivers. We're still trying to wade through all the Harry Potter email we received based on our last issue's recommendation. We're pleased that TNPCers find these recommended books useful. We get comments all the time like this one from Surinder A., "I have picked up 6 books from your recommended list and am waiting for the 7th book to arrive in the mail. This is one of the best selection lists that I could have come across after spending hours at a decent library." So check out our Library page on the TNPC Web site; this page lists each book we've ever recommended and its accompanying review. Remember, when our readers use the links we've posted on our Web site or in our newsletter to purchase books, hardware, or software from Amazon or Beyond, it generates a small amount of revenue for TNPC and that helps us to keep TNPC a free newsletter. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/305/tr.cgi?books As always, reader support is what keeps TNPC free, so please pass a copy of TNPC on to co-workers and friends (no spam please!) and always say "I saw it in TNPC!" So now you know. +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ >> $30 OFF to Naked PC readers! WEB 4 LIFE webCOMBO Dial Up Access - ONE Time Fee Nationwide Internet, 5-emails, FREE Tech Support & MORE! E-mail for Coupon: mailto:web4life@autobots.net WIRELESS Fast Internet info: mailto:wireless@autobots.net >> DSL? Fill out the Form at http://www.DSLform.com How do YOU want Your INTERNET? http://www.Web-4Life.net 1-888-932-4543 +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ ** 02. Slow Support for Windows 2000 (by Al Gordon) Let's cut to the chase: I am very partial to Windows 2000. Within a few months, it will be my production operating system. But as I've said before, don't rush out and buy it just yet. For once, the problem doesn't mainly lie with Microsoft. The "bug" issue to Windows 2000 has been greatly overblown. I have experienced some glitches, but nothing especially troublesome. The more serious limitations I am seeing in Win2K come from seeing that the concerns I raised in my last article have been realized: software manufacturers have not rushed to publish Windows 2000-compatible updates nor have hardware vendors been all that aggressive in upgrading their drivers. Symantec, for example, has published a comprehensive timetable of Win2K upgrades the upshot of which is: (a) almost all of its product line eventually will be made available for Windows 2000, a welcome change from the limited selection available for Windows NT4; BUT (b) the rollout will take most of the year, AND (c) Symantec is talking primarily "upgrades" not "patches" or "updates." Upgrades, as we all know too well, mean the company regards the release as brand-new software requiring you to pay brand-new money, as opposed to a no-cost patch. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/305/tr.cgi?ag1symantec Hewlett-Packard has decided to provide full Windows 2000 support- -including USB capabilities--only for its current model scanners. My 6200C scanner, which is last year's model, has both SCSI and USB capabilities and both are supported under Windows 98, but HP will only support it in SCSI under Windows 2000. "Invent" is the new HP slogan and apparently one of the new inventions is to fail to fully support its products through their advertised service life. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/305/tr.cgi?ag2hp Similarly, Palm Computing has not resolved its Windows 2000 issues. Their tech support people have made things worse by telling customers that they don't support Windows 2000. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/305/tr.cgi?ag3palm Currently ranking at the top of my Windows 2000 Hall of Shame, though, are Veritas Software and PowerQuest. Veritas is the current manufacturer of Backup Executive for Desktop, formerly Seagate; formally Arcada Backup. Its Windows 2000 update for individual users won't be available until April. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/305/tr.cgi?ag3veritas Clearly, no utility is more valuable when doing system upgrades than backup software, and besides, Veritas has been bragging about the availability of its industrial strength backup for Windows 2000 Server. Similarly, PowerQuest has been beating the publicity drums for the use of its DriveImage Pro imaging software for rolling out Windows 2000. However, Partition Magic 5.0--just released recently and essential to repartitioning your hard drive to adjust for Windows 2000--does not run under Windows 2000. If you want to use it, it better be installed in another operating system or you had better create the floppy disk "rescue" version. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/305/tr.cgi?ag4powerquest Symantec falls one step below in infamy because it did make its most essential product----Norton AntiVirus 2000--Windows 2000 compatible. However, as noted, that is about it. I am fairly irritated that the new Norton Speed Disk 5.0 for NT, which I just purchased a couple months ago--won't run under Windows 2000. Neither does WinFax Pro, which for me is a key production application. Well actually, it does run. For experimental purposes--because that's the kind of thing we do for our readers--I installed Win2K over Windows NT4, which confirmed the value of our standard advice to do clean installations rather than upgrade over an old one. However, it did have a curious result for WinFax. Whereas most non-compatible applications simply refuse to run under Windows 2000, WinFax puts up a message box saying that the application should be reinstalled because of the operating system change. But then it runs anyway. Kids, don't try this at home. There is no guarantee that an unsupported and probably unstable configuration will work indefinitely. However, I mention this mainly because it suggests to me that WinFax Pro probably should have been ready for Windows 2000 already. As to those vaunted Windows 2000 bugs, the sum total of my problems are that the "Windows key + e" combination is bringing up a Norton utility instead of Explorer, and when I shut down or reboot, I get a stop error blue screen--Windows 9x users know this as a "fatal exception error." Since this pops up after Windows 2000 has closed down, the main impact is that I don't see the Windows 2000 shutdown graphics and I have to use the reset key to finish the reboot. Microsoft tech support is of the opinion that I probably won't be seeing these problems with a clean install; it's probably related to quirks of the upgrade. You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:algordon@TheNakedPC.com +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ *****************FREE DirecTV GIVEAWAY!!!***************** Two former Dell Executives want to give you an opportunity to earn extra cash and A FREE DirecTV system! 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I believe that the Internet's breadth and depth--ever growing, of course--is now such that very soon a majority of people, not a minority, will have a profound personal experience that's enhanced or entirely enabled by the Internet. As the Internet's mass grows, more people can and will be deeply touched. And repeatedly so. Here's what happened to me. I have been using the Internet for many years, professionally and personally. In both dimensions it has had a cumulative positive effect on me, but I hadn't realized until last week how profound the *total* effect has been. Two items: surf forecasting and an expedition currently under way-- right now as I write this--of big-wave surfers navigating the waters of the Antarctic in search of surf. In the case of surf forecasting, for many years my surfing companions and I have been looking for the ideal surf forecast for the California coastline, short of becoming meteorologists and oceanographers ourselves. Here's what we use at Stormsurf.com: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/305/tr.cgi?lh1stormsurf A good surf forecast allows us to have better surfing adventures (more hits, fewer misses). Since for me surfing goes beyond a sport and delves into an exploration of who I am, a good forecast really makes a difference. Without the Internet, the real-time data that makes a good surf forecast would only be available to scientists and researchers linked up directly to buoys and satellites. (I'm oversimplifying somewhat; there has long been a marine band radio broadcast for offshore buoy readings of current swell size and interval. But widespread public access to detailed real-time data has been catalyzed by the growth of the Internet.) As for the Antarctica surfing expedition, it was the serendipitous wake-up call that inspired this article. I stumbled onto a Stormsurf.com link to a "real-time digital sports network Web site" called Quokka.com; that link was for the expedition's front page: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/305/tr.cgi?lh2quokka I was hooked. Edge of my seat. Hyperventilating. The expedition consists of eleven human beings on the 19.5 meter steel staysail schooner "The Golden Fleece." The adventurers are all well-tuned surfers, watermen, and sailors. During the past few weeks they have been navigating in some of the most treacherous waters on the planet. Searching for surf on an un-surfed continent, new vistas in a remote but stunningly beautiful environment, personal achievement, self-improvement... by any moniker a noble effort indeed. I was absolutely riveted to their Web site, listening to their streaming audio dispatches (narrated primarily by journalist Sedge Thomson), devouring their written dispatches, always eager for more. The Internet vectored right into this digitally equipped expedition, and the whole thing nailed me. I felt like I was there in a way no ESPN video broadcast could ever accomplish, perhaps because there was NO video, just a peek into the essence of their experience that can be conveyed so powerfully by the spoken and written word. They were remote, they were on the edge, but also occasionally connected by a thin electromagnetic strand to their satellite link and ultimately to their supporters, their audience, and me. I'm wishing them a safe voyage home. I'm fascinated by this convergence of the Internet and the inner self. If you have been uniquely enabled or inspired by an event you experienced through the Internet, I'd like to hear about it. You can reach Lee Hudspeth at: mailto:leehudspeth@TheNakedPC.com ** 04. Virtual Office with uReach.com (by T.J. Lee) If you are a virtual freelancer or contractor, of if you hold down a full time job and do a little work on the side, you can run into the problem of trying to have an office without really having an office. The traditional office has a lot of handy things in it. Like a receptionist to answer the phones, a voice mail system, someone to let you know when an important call comes in (even though you don't want to be disturbed), someone to deal with the fax machine... you get the picture. When you're a virtual worker you don't have many of these services available to you. Enter a new breed of Web-based businesses like uReach.com. uReach is basically a phone/fax/email company that lets you have an impressive array of virtual office features. First and foremost is your very own 800 number. An 800 number makes you look like a real player, no doubt about it. Ureach.com gives you 30 free minutes a month. Unused minutes carry forward to a maximum of 60 free minutes available in any one month. Your 800 number connects to your personal voice mailbox and your recorded messages are stored on the uReach server (up to 30 megabytes worth). You can buy additional minutes for between .10 and .08 cents a minute depending on how many minutes you buy. Minutes carry forward month-to-month but are not refundable, so you have to use purchased minutes within one year of buying them or you're out the money. In addition to the 800 number you automatically get an email account (yourname@uReach.com), you can maintain a calendar on the uReach site, receive faxes on your 800 number, and you can listen to your voice mail over the phone or over the Web. You can forward email in your inbox to another email address, even forward faxes and voicemail messages (as attached sound clips). You can make calls "through" your 800 number as well. Instead of dealing with calling cards you dial your uReach number and place the call through the uReach system and the minutes are deducted from your uReach account (no international calls at this time). By far, my favorite gimmick is the uReachMe feature. With uReachMe you forward your incoming calls that come to your 800 number to another number that you designate. This way, any call that comes in can follow you to your home, office, or cell phone. What's more you can have calls routed to different numbers depending on when the call comes in and even have it try several numbers in succession. For example, forward to your work phone but if no one answers forward the call to your cell phone, unless the call is after 7:00 PM on weekdays when it goes straight into voice mail. You can set up forwarding rules by when a call comes in, time of day, or day of the week or both; up to a maximum of seven separate schedules. Calls can be forwarded without the caller knowing or you can use what uReach calls the "whisper function." The caller is given the option of leaving a message (voice mail) or of having the system try to find you. If they want you found they are prompted to say their name and then uReach calls your forwarding number. uReach plays back their name letting you know who is calling and then you have the option of dumping the call back into your uReach voicemail or of taking the call. uReach is a great phone tool to have in your virtual arsenal. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/305/tr.cgi?jl1ureach You can reach T.J. Lee at: mailto:tj_lee@TheNakedPC.com +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ The Unofficial Guide to PCs "This excellent book is the best solution for all your questions and problems. It will save you lots of money, time and anger." This is what readers say about "The Unofficial Guide to PCs" from QUE. 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The NT systems also have the added capability to support multibooting multiple instances of themselves. The way to do this is very simple: when the Windows 2000 installation process starts, you get a screen asking whether you want to upgrade your existing version of Windows or create a "clean" installation. Ignore the recommendation for the upgrade, and choose "clean." The installation program will then set up a version of Windows 2000 so that it and Windows 9x both will be available to you. If you have partitioned your hard drive with multiple partitions, Windows 2000 setup will allow you to choose the partition where it is installed. However, that actually isn't required--it can simply be installed into a separate folder on the same partition as Windows 9x. My recommended system configuration, in fact, is to multiboot Win 98 and Win2K, as there are some legacy apps (and games) that will not run under Windows 2000. You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:algordon@TheNakedPC.com ** 06. 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They claim this is the first anti-virus software for Office 2000 that is 100 percent guaranteed against macro viruses. They have a demo version available for download and are selling this new product for the introductory price of $9.95 until April 15th. (We've not looked at this product ourselves yet.) http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/305/tr.cgi?news3 *-* The next version of Microsoft Office, Office 10, will go into beta testing this summer, integrating full voice control. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/305/tr.cgi?news4 *-* And be sure to check the PRIME Update page regularly: http://www.PRIMEConsulting.com/update/ ** 11. We Get Mail - TNPC = Few Morals and Less Integrity? We received many comments on Dan's recent PayPal article: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/305/tr.cgi?paypal All were very positive about this handy service, except this one. "I understand that [TNPC] are encouraging people to send nickels and dimes over the Internet so that you can make your $10 a hit. That's greed. 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